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Seagate Confirms 3TB Hard Drive
Stoobalou writes "After a few weeks of rumours, Seagate's senior product manager Barbara Craig has confirmed that the company is announcing a 3TB drive later this year, but the move to 3TB of storage space apparently involves a lot more work than simply upping the areal density. The ancient foundations of the PC's three-decade legacy has once again reared its DOS-era head, revealing that many of today's PCs are simply incapable of coping with hard drives that have a larger capacity than 2.1TB."
Perhaps you missed his comment "for newer machines"? If you're running XP on machines/devices older than 18 mos, then yeah, you probably wouldn't benefit. You could also purchase 1-2TB drives for upgrades, and by the time you have a _need_ for 3+ TB HDD, then you should be able/ready to upgrade to Win7 or later.
Now stop trolling.
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Better Question will windows 7 work with it?
Isn't their some stupid limit at 2TB for installing a non-server OS?
>>>Safari 3.0.4 runs on 10.4.x
Not according to both wikipedia and apple.com. Both say you need 10.5, which means I could not run it on my 10.4 mac, so I was using an old outdated browser which displayed web pages as garbage. Apple basically abandoned me and other 10.4 users. They don't like to support anything older than 5 years.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
"Seriously? If you've got a 3TB drive, are you seriously suggesting a person be counting wasted bytes?"
Seriously, if you bought a 3TB drive, and you actually intend to use it, then the wasted space problem is as relevant as it was when you needed a 300MB drive. It's just scale, the argument is not invalidated.
"I'm sorry, I'm Canadian."
oh, NOW I get it.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
No. However, since I don't have an extensive background in disk management and Linux, how the fuck would I even know that I had the correct LVM? There was literally no information in there to tell me I wasn't looking for an alternative to BIOS and EFI.
Canada: The US's more awesome sibling.